Thursday, July 15, 2010

Hair Loss!

So Caroline and I are both loosing our hair! She's loosing it on her sides, mine, it's falling out everywhere, I can't pin-point a location, just everywhere. Everyday I take in deep breaths! It came back last time, it will come back this time. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale.

Colic got the best of me!

I haven't posted anything for a long time... Caroline's colic set us back, but we're back up and running. There was a lot of running around the house, bouncing, bath taking, shushing, etc. to get her to calm down/fall asleep. It finally ended when she was 12 weeks! We had 10 STRAIGHT weeks of colic. Every evening from 6pm -11pm, she cried non-stop. My pediatrician diagnoses colic as an immature nervous system. Basically, a colicky baby is overwhelmed by this new world and becomes extremely overstimulated. At the end of the day, she expresses her over stimulation with incessant crying. Poor thing!

Top the colic off with projectile reflux and even refluxing out of her nose, Caroline had a bumpy start in to this world. We took each day in stride. She is an amazing gift to our family. Emory loves, loves, loves her sister. She tells her sister everyday that she loves her (with NO encouragement from mom or dad, just on her own). So sweet! Our little family is doing great!